Klu Klux Klan and neo-Nazi members weren’t expecting the circus to show up during their anti-immigration rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.

But colourful counter-protestors came dressed as clowns and outnumbered the protestors five to one on Saturday, responding to chants of ‘White Power’ with their own chants of ‘Dwight Power’ and ‘White Flower’.

Many of the counter-protestors were using squeaky toys, whistles and horns to drown out the amplified white supremacy speeches, NBC Charlotte reported.

Jokes on them: Counter-protestors dressed as clowns outnumber white supremacists five to one

Clowning Around: Three counter-protestors bounce up and down

Their message: ‘Racism is ridiculous.’

‘The message from us is, you look silly,' said Lacey Williams, the youth coordinator for Charlotte’s Latin American Coalition. 'We're dressed like clowns and you're the ones that look funny.'

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John Autry, a city council member, came to the event wearing a red clown nose to show his support for the counter-protesters.

‘We're just a great big happy melting pot,’ he told NBC. ‘I just wanted to come out here and make sure people understood that I did not support the views of the people behind up here with the microphones.’

Drowned out: A Klan member speaks about white power as protestors around him blow on horns and whistles

Counter magic: 'White Flower!'

Roughly 75 police officers circled the lawn of Old City Hall where the two hate groups were delivering speeches about an alternative third party to Americas’ two-party system based on white supremacy.

Metal barricades separated the speakers from those who came to mock them.

After two hours of rallying against immigration, the Klan and neo-Nazis wrapped up their presentation and left with a police escort.